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It is for this reason of direct symbolic disclosure that the Negative hierarchy often finds more efficient means of dissimulation in the channeling phenomenon, for here, there is no direct encounter or condensation to "visible appearance", but only the medium of the word to be interpreted according to the recipient's lights. The mode of expression is by that measure indirect and the Negative beings have therefore a greater latitude of deception at their disposal. Since the Negative is altogether, in one sense, an inverse reflection of the Positive or True Creative Logos, a parallel configuration borrowing all its components by simple reversal and distortion, it proceeds by the method of imitation. It apes the expression of the positive, the more meticulously where it wishes to be mistaken altogether for the positive so as to subvert the message for those who tend to abide by it. Its typical strategy is to adhere so closely to the letter of the positive as to be virtually indistinguishable to all but initiated awareness, installing itself through the rhythmic lull of entrainment so as to catch the "congregation totally off guard when it diverges slightly or greatly from pattern and so pulls a portion of the positive track along with it. The voice of the Negative is of course the more ingratiatingly imitative where the inclination of the recipient is already to the positive; a negative receptacle requires no such precaution. Even in the case of channeling, however, the character of the Astral origin compels the insinuation of a sign, a kind of confessional signature no matter how subtle. Indeed this trait of the communication is often accepted as a device of mockery suited to the character of the source, it is played with as a defiant means of asserting the true identity of the Signal, hiding it in plain symbolic sight in conformance with "astral" requirements. This law which insists even the physical form exhibit "some sign or characteristic which identifies" the "true essence", is indeed remarked upon by one such channeled source, the Hilarion Material. Hilarion is an entity identified in both the "Christ" materials of V. Essene and the Ra channelings, as a being of the positive Hierarchy. Thus when we see books on the shelf bearing the Hilarion moniker we automatically respond with a beam of recognition. Hilarion's 'channel' (Maurice B Cooke) seems decisively predisposed to the Christian stream of positive teaching, so we are not particularly surprised when the second half of The Nature of Reality (which had up to then been a so so account of "esoteric physics") breaks into a frenzied description of the imminent apocalypse. Indeed, the book ends with a graphic account of destruction and the final torment of souls as they are beaten to their knees in extortion of a "repentance" and "turning to God 'which they'd apparently been reluctant to make even when melting into one another. This stomach churning peroration was no accident, for in another Hilarion volume, the source proclaims that the structure of the book held been deliberately designed with the "Armageddon" last so as to attract a tou out oun 14 With an eye, then, to the Ra account re the way in which the Orions have traditionally sought to subvert the positive messages and meanings of persons or events through emphasizing moods of doom and destruction, making such negativity a central feature of the communication thus deflecting attention into brooding byways of despair, we may turn to the Hilarion account of the existence of Negative Beings (or the Dark Brotherhood, in the terms of this source). According to Hilarion's account, the Negative is allowed to exist because its minions act in the ultimately helpful and healthy capacity of predators that only decimate the "diseased" ranks, i e like wolf attacking the sick or congenitally weak specimens of caribou (Hilanon's analogy). "The wolf attacks these defective caribou, and would never think of wasting its energy trying to chase or bring down healthy specimens. By weeding out the weaker ones, the wolf ensures that the healthy remains strong. "With this edifying version of Christian Darwinism, we are comforted into the notion of our constitutional safety (considering the readership of such a work to be ipso facto amongst the Elect, an assurance "we" were 37 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm particular type of "select" readership. My, What Big Eyes You Have...